[Closed] Does any body use and rate ubuntu for there PC?

Yes. I've been using linux in various flavours for about 7 -8 years. It's user friendly but remember it is not ms windows so something are different and will seem weird. Loads of help on the web and a good community if after research you still can't work things out.

If you're completely new to Linux I'd suggest buying a book like one of these

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_6?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=ubuntu&sprefix=ubuntu

I did when I first started with linux (different distro though) and it gave me a good kick start / help with the silly easy things.

Bought an Asus EePC last week. It came with Windows7 Starter Edition.
I've stuck Ubuntu on it and been trying it out.
Quite like it.

Installed the latest version on a legacy lap top we acquired. Have set it up dual boot style. Like the interface but it runs terribly slowly opening up ff takes about 30s and opening the program which lists all the installed progs locks it up for a minute. Not sure what's up. May be a kernel issue according to Some blah on the web. Hoping that the latest beta will work better. If not it's back to xp, which is fine imo.

I use it on a laptop which was dying under the weight of windows. I don't use it much but it works well. I guess drivers for peripherals may be an issue.

Used it as a test but gave up because there wasn't a specific reason for using it, it made a difference (not such huge difference though) but overall it slowed me down and got in the way enough to make it unsuitable for regular use.

If you have the time it is worth firing up for a look though.

Used for a couple of years now and had a glitch a couple of weeks ago after trying 11.04 (I think) and gave up after trying numerous things to get flash player to work and failing. Went back to XP and it was very slow in comparison.

Now re-installed 10.10 and it's fast and faultless. Very easy to use once you have it set up (and I'm a computer numpty) !

a crap experience with vista was the encouragement I needed on an oldish laptop, it transformed it

I've not found anything I couldn't do functionally with the standard ubuntu download and the apps through the software centre (tip, once you have ubuntu installed, get the restricted extras, it's codecs and the like that really open it up)

linux mint is very well recommended as well

I'm on an Ubuntu netbook now. It's great for surfing and whatnot. I have XP on the PC upstairs and windows 7 at work. I'm not sure I could use it on a full PC as I haven't looked at what apps are available for image editing and so on, but for just browsing and so on it's great

For internet, playing movies and the like and basically anything fairly standard, it's brilliant. So much quicker than Windows too.

But as soon as you get technical it gets hard and you end up needing to ram stuff through the terminal all the time, makes it ALMOST feel unfinished. With a bit of knowledge you can work round it, but for a 24/7 every day PC I am not too sure. It would be a challenge!

cool, its problems with speed/vista thats tempting to use it on spare laptop. thanks for the replys.

i ran my eeepc on jolicloud ubuntu for a couple years

worked fine - about as intuitive to use as a driving your car with hooks for hands though ..... much like the many linux distros i tried althought this was the better - sped up the computer to barable levels though. loaded very quickly. just a shame i could never get peripherals to work as they were meant to - i could get them to install - some fine - some not so , some when i got em working and unplugged em i had to reinstall each time - im talking something as simple as a mouse ....or an external HDD !- may have been the pc - i didnt bother investigating in the end

went to an ipad instead. was using the eeepc more and more as a traveling movie player so 5 hrs battery and a 7 inch crap res screen was very limiting on a transatlantic flight......

I have used linux for years. There is an initial learning curve, but once you're over that I think it takes less attention than a Windows OS to keep running well.

If you have even just a passing interest in technology and computers you should at least try it. There are several easy ways to get started - boot from a live CD, or dual boot, or stick it on an old computer first - or just jump straight in with both feet and bosh it over Windows on your main PC.

Try Linux mint. Much better than Ubuntu now that its gone with the unity interface. Mint still uses gnome

I tried it (some linux or other) on an old laptop

installed OK but it only used the central portion of the screen with a very small desktop image

googled for ages to find a solution but none of the suggestions worked. there's lots of people out there who know lots, but the basics didn't seem well-described anyhere (maybe I should've bought a book too)

I've installed it on a PC and a couple of laptops and an eePC. Worked Ok but, as has been said before, was quite different - too much hassle to teach the wife and kids how to use it so ended up ditching it.
Linux worked best on the eePC which was only really used for surfing.

I then bought my eldest daughter a Dell Mini 10 and installed OSX and XP as a dual boot. Since then it has never been started in XP. OSX ticks many boxes (easy to use, pretty much virus free and compatible with Windows). For home use I'd recommend installing OSX if your hardware is suitable. Google Hackintosh for more info.

I'm writing this on a Linux machine, Ubuntu flavoured. It works fine for most stuff, if all you want to do is web stuff go for it.

The main advantage is that it's free - I haven't noticed any significant speed or stability advantages over a Windows installation, TBH.

There are two main disadvantages (for me, at least):

* I nearly always end up spending part of my working day using a virtual machine (VMWare) Windows installation to run Office. (I've got Wine+Office installed, but it's nothing like as smooth as a "native" install.)
* A decent image editor - GIMP will do everything, but I really can't stand the interface.

I've installed it on a PC and a couple of laptops and an eePC. Worked Ok but, as has been said before, was quite different - too much hassle to teach the wife and kids how to use it so ended up ditching it.
Linux worked best on the eePC which was only really used for surfing

Weird, I had it installed on a machine at home for a while and neither the kids nor the wife had any problem at all, and none of them are particularly computer-literate. Once they'd learned that the internet browser was Firefox, and not IE... The basic idea of files, directories etc. is exactly the same, and most of the rest of the applications are either the same or similar enough not to confuse.

I then bought my eldest daughter a Dell Mini 10 and installed OSX

Fine for just using, I'm guessing most people want internet, movies and music, ubuntu will do that easily enough and without getting riddled with viruses. Pain in the arse for messing around with tho if you've been using windows since forever.

I got a great deal on a OS free laptop so decided to try Linux before buying Windows. That was over a year ago and I'm still running Linux - was on Ubuntu and now Mint, which I switched to after finding Unity really restrictive.

Very happy with it for all the usual tasks with nothing too unusual - email, web, ftp, photos, office, music. Biggest missing piece for me is video editting but there are a couple of decent ones that I find useable now.

* A decent image editor - GIMP will do everything, but I really can't stand the interface.

Have you tried the Gimpshop plugin?

Been using ubuntu on my home laptop for the last 3 years after snapping mx xp instalation disk.

Its been a sweet experience so far for web surfing and home use, kids seem to be able to manage using it too.

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You might want to look at Mint which is another flavour of Ubuntu but comes packaged with a few handy tools and has a different interface.

I use Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu. I like them all.

i'm using it now on a tiny notepad thing.

i like the principles of free speech and free beer. linux represents both so i thought i'd try it. i don't ask much of it; browsing, documents (using openoffice), music, etc.

i'm impressed, it works, and it's free.

I use Mint on my laptop. I think it's great.

It had Vista pre-installed when i bought it, but it really couldn't cope. So before long, i decided i'd try Linux. I used Ubuntu for about a year, but i was put off when i upgraded to 11.04 (and unity).

At that point, i upgraded to Mint, and i've never looked back. I still use Windows 7 on my PC, as that gets used for gaming, but for a laptop, Linux is the best OS going. It also scales very well, so you can even use it on old hardware that can't handle a modern OS.

Been using it exclusively for 3 or so years and

There is an initial learning curve, but once you're over that I think it takes less attention than a Windows OS to keep running well.

If you have even just a passing interest in technology and computers you should at least try it. There are several easy ways to get started - [b]boot from a live CD, or dual boot,[/b] or stick it on an old computer first - or just jump straight in with both feet and bosh it over Windows on your main PC.

I've never got on with Linux as a desktop OS. Win7 is pretty good and it's stable enough. I run Win7 on my laptops, Solaris or OEL on my servers. Now if only someone could come up with a UNIX variant with a great GUI 🙂

It was a legally bought copy of OSX

I thought (maybe it's changed) that OSX was not licensed for anything except apple hardware.

IIRC the license agreement states that you have to run it on Apple branded h/w. When you purchase OSX they provide you with stickers that you can brand your non-apple h/w with.

It's pretty decent, but there's still there's a good chance you might need to do some terminal type jiggerypokery if you use it for any length of time to get some things working. Which isn't too bad, just google it and copy and paste and the like, but it can be a bit of a headf***. Over all for basic computing needs, it's fine as a home office/interweb machine.